Fishing Forum

Headed up to the Soldier Creek Side of Strawberry today. Arrived around 7:30 a.m. Ended up catching 32 fish - 1 koke, 6 rainbows, 1 cutt > 22 inches & the balance slott cutts. (Ended up catching a Strawberry mini slam with all three type of fish & one cutt over 22-inches. I think this is my first - see photo)

Fishing was fairly fast from the time I started until 10:00 a.m., then it slowed down. It picked up again between noon and 1:00 p.m. Caught all fish with various colors of cutter bugs - color did not seem to matter today. I was fishing in 23 feet of water and the fish were caught throughout the water column.

The first fish caught was the Koke (16-inches, 1 lbs 8 oz) on a pink cutterbug, 10 feet below the ice tipped with a worm & dead sticked - go figure!

The larger cutt was caught during the noon frenzy. Saw a lot of larger fish moving around after noon on the camera. Had a couple, what appeared to be, wall hangers come through and nose my jigs; however, never opened their mouths & swam off.

The reservoir ice was perfect - maybe 2 inches of snow covering 20-inches of ice. It was a nice spring day, stripped down to my long sleeve T-shirt. I believe I was the only one fishing the Soldier Creek side today, never saw another person. Could life be any better?

I will have to work on getting a Strawberry grand slam - with bigger fish.
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Nice outing. Did you go in via the Soldier Creek Marina road or from the dam side? Either way, how are the road conditions? Any passable with a 4-wheel drive or it still snowmobile only?
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I went down the East Side road & it is not passable with any 4x4 type of vehicle. The snow is packed hard enough that I think you could get an ATV down the road & onto the ice. There are some deep drifts that you can currently drive on top; however, you would want to watch the weather. They may not be passable with warmer temps??

The road to the SC campground did not look passable from the Hwy. I did not drive it, so I am not totally sure.
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Now that's a nice looking bag of fish. Hopefully snow conditions last I'd like to get up to the berry this upcoming Friday. Thanks for the report.
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